157 research outputs found
Internal Temperature Decline Rate in Beef Primals is Reduced in Heavier Carcasses
The objective of this study was to determine the influence of increasing beef hot carcass weights on internal temperature decline during chilling
Non-equilibrium two-phase coexistence in a confined granular layer
We report the observation of the homogenous nucleation of crystals in a dense
layer of steel spheres confined between two horizontal plates vibrated
vertically. Above a critical vibration amplitude, two-layer crystals with
square symmetry were found to coexist in steady state with a surrounding
granular liquid. By analogy to equilibrium hard sphere systems, the phase
behavior can be explained through entropy maximization. However, dramatic
non-equilibrium effects are present, including a significant difference in the
granular temperatures of the two phases.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, RevTex4 forma
Onset of Collective Oscillation in Chemical Turbulence under Global Feedback
Preceding the complete suppression of chemical turbulence by means of global
feedback, a different universal type of transition, which is characterized by
the emergence of small-amplitude collective oscillation with strong turbulent
background, is shown to occur at much weaker feedback intensity. We illustrate
this fact numerically in combination with a phenomenological argument based on
the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with global feedback.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figures; to appear in Phys. Rev.
Flueric normal shock sensor
Design and testing of sensing elements and fluid logic circuit for shock location measurement of jet engine inlet diffuse
Mirror matter admixtures and isospin breaking in the \Delta I=1/2 rule in \Omega^- two body non-leptonic decays
We discuss a description of \Omega^- two body non-leptonic decays based on
possible, albeit tiny, admixtures of mirror matter in ordinary hadrons. The
\Delta I=1/2 rule enhancement is obtained as a result of isospin symmetry and,
more importantly, the rather large observed deviations from this rule result
from small isospin breaking. This analysis lends support to the possibility
that the enhancement phenomenon observed in low energy weak interactions may be
systematically described by mirror matter admixtures in ordinary hadrons.Comment: Changed conten
Instability and Chaos in Non-Linear Wave Interaction: a simple model
We analyze stability of a system which contains an harmonic oscillator
non-linearly coupled to its second harmonic, in the presence of a driving
force. It is found that there always exists a critical amplitude of the driving
force above which a loss of stability appears. The dependence of the critical
input power on the physical parameters is analyzed. For a driving force with
higher amplitude chaotic behavior is observed. Generalization to interactions
which include higher modes is discussed.
Keywords: Non-Linear Waves, Stability, Chaos.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figure
Lyapunov spectral analysis of a nonequilibrium Ising-like transition
By simulating a nonequilibrium coupled map lattice that undergoes an
Ising-like phase transition, we show that the Lyapunov spectrum and related
dynamical quantities such as the dimension correlation length~ are
insensitive to the onset of long-range ferromagnetic order. As a function of
lattice coupling constant~ and for certain lattice maps, the Lyapunov
dimension density and other dynamical order parameters go through a minimum.
The occurrence of this minimum as a function of~ depends on the number of
nearest neighbors of a lattice point but not on the lattice symmetry, on the
lattice dimensionality or on the position of the Ising-like transition. In
one-space dimension, the spatial correlation length associated with magnitude
fluctuations and the length~ are approximately equal, with both
varying linearly with the radius of the lattice coupling.Comment: 29 pages of text plus 15 figures, uses REVTeX macros. Submitted to
Phys. Rev. E
A Non-Equilibrium Defect-Unbinding Transition: Defect Trajectories and Loop Statistics
In a Ginzburg-Landau model for parametrically driven waves a transition
between a state of ordered and one of disordered spatio-temporal defect chaos
is found. To characterize the two different chaotic states and to get insight
into the break-down of the order, the trajectories of the defects are tracked
in detail. Since the defects are always created and annihilated in pairs the
trajectories form loops in space time. The probability distribution functions
for the size of the loops and the number of defects involved in them undergo a
transition from exponential decay in the ordered regime to a power-law decay in
the disordered regime. These power laws are also found in a simple lattice
model of randomly created defect pairs that diffuse and annihilate upon
collision.Comment: 4 pages 5 figure
Dynamics and Selection of Giant Spirals in Rayleigh-Benard Convection
For Rayleigh-Benard convection of a fluid with Prandtl number \sigma \approx
1, we report experimental and theoretical results on a pattern selection
mechanism for cell-filling, giant, rotating spirals. We show that the pattern
selection in a certain limit can be explained quantitatively by a
phase-diffusion mechanism. This mechanism for pattern selection is very
different from that for spirals in excitable media
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